"Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Akhil Sharma

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.”
“Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.”
“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Beauty and Sadness”, p.114, Vintage
“Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue disproportionately to the rich and super-rich.”
“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press
“Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.”
“There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which is never fulfilling. Even while you are engaged in one rich experience you are looking about for another. There is no contentment because future plans are always intruding on the present.”
“Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.”

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